R-Type Dimensions III, from developer Kritzelkratz 3000, is an update of R-Type III: The Third Lightning, released in 1993 on the SNES. Although, tha...
Stop me if you've heard this one. Earth is drained to the lees, people are pissed. No amount of green-bin attentiveness and cycle-to-work scheming h...
Darwin's Paradox! stars an octopus named Darwin, who is fished out of water by a flying saucer, to be diced, sealed into canned goods, and served to...
Apparently, Replaced has been languishing in development hell for the best part of a decade. This was news to me, but it suits the game's setting,...
Well, I'll be damned: such is the premise of Hades II, which arrives on consoles after a period of purgatory. It crept into early access, on PC, in...
The new game from Capcom, Pragmata, begins in freaky fashion. Four astronauts board a base on the moon, looking for trouble. Not looking to make trou...
Dodge, casing, modem, cordite, enamel, retina, and collude. You are unlikely to find this particular assortment of words in a single video game, much ...
It's been what feels like a millennium since the last entry in the Legacy of Kain series, back in 2003. Then again, for the vampiric heroes of thes...
What is the Silver Surfer's problem? Well, there are many. First is boredom. It has to be dull striking an endless pose atop a plank of reflective m...
"All you've got to do is go forwards and turn left and right – and brake if you're a wuss." Such were the words of Graffiti Interactive, in ...
The mission of Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is twofold. First, to deliver a modest campaign: five or so hours of relentless first-person shoo...
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake isn't quite right. Developed by Team Ninja, the new game is really a remake of Project Zero 2: Wii Edition...
Our first duty, when it comes to John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, is to work out the weight of that apostrophe. I would love to report that Carpent...
In the new puzzle-platformer from Tarsier Studios, Reanimal, you get to drive an ice cream van. That may come as a shock, given that this developer m...
It goes without saying that the new game from Grasshopper Manufacture is a mess. But that's neither here nor there. You don't buy this studio's ...
What is going on in France? The game that conquered the public heart, last year, was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It was made by Sandfall Interactiv...
There is a fine and foolish tradition, in games, of world-enriching context being delivered via the medium of graffiti. This includes the practical, e...
Silent Hill 2 came out in 2001, and we have all been miserable ever since. It is a fine misery, the kind you keep close to your heart. Nothing has mat...
Of all the heroes that games have given us, a lighthouse seems quite unlikely. They do a fine job as portals, liable to rocket into the heavens or sin...
Some games just keep bouncing back. Though technically a new release, Ball x Pit is rich in echoes of bygone classics. It isn't, as you may think, a...